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Wild's missed opportunities allowed Vancouver to win

Everyone knows this by now: the line of Jason Zucker - Mikko Koivu - Nino Niederreiter is one that's pretty great at hockey. While the rest of the Wild's forwards played Vancouver to a draw in the first period of last night's game, Koivu's line absolutely controlled Vancouver, buzzing in the offensive zone, and keeping Vancouver pinned in their own end.

This line had a couple of amazing chances early on, which were stymied by Ryan Miller. The most notable being this sequence 8 minutes into the first period.

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Zucker got his stick on a Ryan Suter rebound in front of some open net, but Sbisa ensures that Zucker can't get all of it.